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ἀστιβής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστιβής ἀστιβές

Structure: ἀστιβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stei/bw

Sense

  1. untrodden, desert, pathless
  2. not to be trodden, holy

Examples

  • καὶ τὰ μὲν βόρεια μέχρι Φάσιδοσ, τὰ δ’ ἑῷα μέχρι Μηδίασ, τὰ δὲ πρὸσ νότον καὶ τήν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν οἰκειωσάμενοσ διὰ τῶν Ἀραβικῶν βασιλέων, συντρίψασ δὲ τὰσ δυνάμεισ τῶν βασιλέων, ἀπολειφθεὶσ δὲ μόνου τοῦ τὰ σώματα λαβεῖν, ὥσπερ θηρίων εἰσ ἐρημίασ καὶ ὕλασ ἀστιβεῖσ καὶ ἀβάτουσ ἀποδιδρασκόντων. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 3 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. not to be trodden

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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